NRG-5

  This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 762013.  

Title

Enabling Smart Energy as a Service via 5G Mobile Network advances (NRG-5)

Concept

Despite a number of software frameworks and reference architectures have made available for 5G enabling technologies, there is a clear gap to bridge towards 5G seamless application with a number of “vertical” sectors. Energy vertical represents undoubtedly one of the most significant “test cases” for 5G enabling technologies, due to the need of addressing a huge range of very diverse requirements to deal with across a variety of applications (stringent capacity for smart metering/AMI versus latency for supervisory control and fault localization).However, to effectively support energy utilities along their transition towards more decentralized renewable-oriented systems, several open issues still remain as to 5G networks management automation, security, resilience, scalability and portability. To face these issues, NRG-5 will research and develop a novel 5G PPP-compliant software framework specifically tailored to the energy domain, which combines i) trusted, scalable and lock-in free plug ‘n’ play support for a variety of constrained devices; ii) 5G devices’ abstractions to demonstrate mMTC, uMTC and xMBB communications coupled with partially distributed, trusted, end-to-end security and MCM to enable secure, scalable and energy efficient communications; iii) extended Mobile Edge Computing (xMEC) micro-clouds to reduce backhaul load, increase the overall network capacity and reduce delays, while facilitating the deployment of generic MTC-related NFVs and utility-centric VNFs; iv) an extended 5G ETSI-MANO predictive analytics framework to support automated, dynamic, elastic VNF reconfiguration.

Participants

• Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Italy (Coordinator)
• Thales Six GTS France SAS, France
• SingularLogic Anonymi Etaireia Pliroforiakon Systimaton Kai Efarmogon Pliroforikis, Greece
• Ineo Energy and Systems, France
• Societatea Nationala de Gaze Naturale Romgaz S.A., Romania
• ASM Terni S.p.A., Italy
• British Telecommunications Public Limited Company, United Kingdom
• Wind Tre S.p.A., Italy
• Hispasat S.A., Spain
• Power Operations Limited, United Kingdom
• VISIONA Ingeniería de Proyectos S.L., Spain
• OPTIMUM Anonimi Etairia Technologies Pliroforikis, Greece
• Emotion S.r.l., Italy
• Institut Jozef Stefan, Slovenia
• Technologiko Ekpedeftiko Idrima Stereas Elladas, Greece
• Sorbonne Université, France
• Université Pierre et Marie Curie – Paris 6, France (Participation ended)
• Centrul Roman al Energiei – CRE, Romania
• Rutgers University, The State University of New Jersey, United States
• Keysight Technologies Denmark ApS, Denmark
• Universidad de Málaga, Spain